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UNrrED STATES ATENT Farce,

JEREMIAH B. ROBERTS, OF FARMINGTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELFAND GEORGE A. JONES, CHAS. E. NEWMAN, AND ALONZO I.

NUTE, OF SAME PLACE.

STATION-INDICATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 251,463, dated December27, 1881. Application filed October 8, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JEREMIAH 13.1to13nars, ofFarmington, of the county of Straftord and State of New Hampshire, haveinvented a new and useful Improvementin Station-Indicators for RailwayPassenger-Oars and I do hereby declare the same to be described in thefollowing specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, ofwhich- IO Figure 1 is a top view, Fig. 2 a longitudinal and verticalsection, Fig.3 a vertical and transverse section, Fig. 4 an end view,Fig. 5 a front elevation, and Fig. 6 a horizontal section, of astation-indicator embodying my in- 1 vention, the nature of which isdefined in the claims hereinafter made.

In such drawings, A and B are two drums or rollers mounted on twohorizontal or parali lel shafts, a b, and having a band or apron, O,

fastened at its ends to them and extending around them, in manner asshown. On the band are to be printed or marked the names of the severalstations of the line of a railroad,

they being arranged on it at the required distances apart and in theirproper order. There are fixed on the two shafts a 1) two spur-gears,

c 0, one of which is at the right end of one shaft and the other at theleft end of the other shaft. Furthermore, fastened on the shafts a b 0at their other ends are two wheels, 6, each of which is embraced by twofriction-swings f,

' arranged with it, as represented. A headed screw, g, going through oneof the sprin gs and screwed into the other, serves to vary the pressureof thespringson theperipheryof the wheel.

The friction apparatus to each of the drumshafts is to hold the shaftand its roller from being accidentally revolved or turned by the jar ofthe car while it (the said car) may be 40 in motion on the railway.

Between the shafts a and b is another horizontal shaft, h, having uponit two spur-gears,

3 2', adapted to engage with one of the gears c 0. Each of the gears 91i has projecting from its outer side an annular flange, 70. These gearsi 'i' revolve freely on the shaft h, which is supported in bearings inthe arms Z Z of a vibrator, D, pivoted on a shaft, E, arranged as shown.

A litter, E, is jointed to the vibrator, and 5 provided with a handle,m, the said lifter beingextended between stationary parallel plates atn, projecting in manner as shown from the frame E of the indicator, suchframe having at its front an opening, 0, of sufficient width 5 to showthe name of a station on the apron, when such name is directly in rearof such opening. By either raising or depressing the lifter, one of thegears i 2" will be thrown into engagement with the gear 0 or 0 next toit. 6 A bolt, 1', arranged as shown, when forced into the lifter, servesto hold it in its higher position.

The shaft h of the two gears i t" is connected to a brake, F, and thereare to each of the said 6 gears two clutch arms, G G, formed andarranged as represented, such arms being pivoted upon the shaft.Fastened to each of the said arms and tothe brake, and arrangedtherewith, as shown, is a spring, H. The brake is movable from one sideto the other of the frame E On such brake being so moved one way, theclutch-arms will be caused to bind on the gear flanges in a manner tocause, with the brake, the two gears z i to be partially re- 7 volvedand as one of them will be in engagement with one of the gears c e, suchgear will be revolved, and will turn its shaft, whereby motion will beimparted to the apron or band C to cause it to be wound upon one and un-84 wound from the other of the two rollers A B the necessary amount tomove one station-name away from the frame-opening and carry to it thenext station-name on the apron.

Prior to reaching each station on the line 8 of the railway, the brakeis to be moved forward and next backward, the clutch-arms during thereturn movement of the brake not acting upon the flanges of the gears ina manner to cause the gears to be revolved. After the 9 apron may havebecome unwound from one roller during the trip of the car, it may berewound upon it during the return trip, in order for it to indicate atthe opening 0, and in due order, the names of the stations of the line.Prior to the return trip being commenced the lifter should bevmoved in amanner tomove into engagement with the gear of the windingroller one ofthe gears i i".

I contemplate connecting the several brakes F of all the stationindicators used in a train of cars with some suitable device ormechanism by Which they may all be simultaneously moved in the samedirection, in order that the conductor or some other suitable person ofthe train may be able to properly actuate all the brakes at once, in theproper manner, as oocasion may require.

The lifter and its bolt is a convenient addition to the mechanism,thoughby no means an essential part thereof, as the vibrator may be moved upand down by manual or other proper power suitably applied to it.

What I claim as my invention in the heroinbefore-describedstation-indicator is- 1. The combination, substantially as specified,for operating, as explained, the two rollers A B of the name-band G,such consisting in the gears c c, the shaft h, flanged gears i-i,vibrator 1), shaft E, brake F, the clutch-arms G, and spring H, allbeing arranged and adapted essentially in manner as set forth.

2. The combination of the Wheelseand their frictionsprings f with thetwo, rollers A B, the name-band (J, gears c o, shaft h, flanged gearsit, vibrators D, shaft E, brake F,clutcl1-arms G, and spring H, allbeing arranged and adapted substantially in manner and to operate as andfor the purpose set forth.

JEREMIAH B. ROBERTS.

\Vitnesses:

FRANK J. SMITH, \VALTER E. DARLING.

